Spinach Essentials

• Spinach and feta cheese are a winning combination. Let the traditional Greek specialty spanakopita, a spinach and feta pie baked in phyllo sheets, inspire you to create a lasagna version of the dish. Combine lightly fried red onions and celery with crumbled feta and a softer fresh cheese, such as anthotiro or ricotta. Add beaten eggs and olive oil and season with dill and nutmeg. Layer this filling between precooked lasagna sheets. Finish with a simple béchamel sauce and grated cheese on top, and bake.

Greek Flavors

• Classic Greek flavors like feta cheese, olives and Mediterranean herbs and vegetables work well together, and not only in salads. Sauté onion, garlic and oregano in a skillet and add seasonal vegetables and tomato pulp to make a sauce. Assemble the dish by ladling vegetable sauce and scattering crumbled feta and sliced Kalamata olives between sheets of pasta. Suitable vegetables for Greek lasagna recipes include zucchini, eggplant, artichoke hearts, roasted bell peppers and mushrooms.

Vegetarian Style

• Not all vegetarian lasagna dishes using feta cheese must follow a Greek theme. Roasted pumpkin, crushed with a fork into a chunky paste, makes a good vegetarian lasagna filling. Layer it in turns with whole spinach leaves flavored with feta and garlic and top with white sauce. Drained canned cannellini beans can also be used in combination with other vegetables, all covered with cheese sauce made of feta and Parmesan melted into a béchamel. Try it with whole-wheat or whole-grain lasagna for added taste and fibers.

Meaty Options

• Stir feta cheese into ground beef and tomatoes for a tangy, creamy twist on classic Bolognese sauce, or use minced chicken and tomatoes in combination with chopped Swiss chard and feta. Lasagna filled with cooked chicken breast slices and vegetables, or with ground lamb flavored with rosemary, can be ladled with marinara sauce and finished with large chunks of feta on top. For a quick fix, enrich a jar of Alfredo sauce with feta and mix with chopped cooked chicken to fill your lasagna. Make seafood lasagna with crabmeat and shrimp, as well as feta and cottage cheese, enhanced by a white sauce flavored with shrimp stock.